--- title: Take this and go home to thy children," said he, "and when thou hast… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Take this and go home to thy children," said he, "and when thou hast got home, call together all thy four sons and say to them, 'My dear children, long long ago, when I was younger than I am now, and knocked about in the world a bit, I made a little money. " Who acts: you, man, thou, four sons. 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" **Who acts:** you, man, thou, four sons, I · **What happens:** take, go, say, get, call together, be · **To what, where:** this, dear children, sons, bit, world, little money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, thou, four sons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:22:117 # text = Take this and go home to thy children," said he, "and when thou hast got home, call together all thy four sons and say to them, 'My dear children, long long ago, when I was younger than I am now, and knocked about in the world a bit, I made a little money. " 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 18 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 20 home home ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 25 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 39 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 40 ago ago ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 parataxis _ _ 46 than than SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 49 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 53 about about ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 61 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 63 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 66 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | this | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | to thy children; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **call together** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thy four sons | | | | | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thy four sons *not said here* | My dear children | sons *= son* | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 7 | **is** | past | I | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | present | I | | | | | now *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **knock about** | past | man *not said here* | a bit | | the world | | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | | 10 | **make** | past | I | a little money | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/118/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/22/)